A Pair of Late 19th Century Folk Art Painted Wooden Money Boxes sub-Antiques such as diamonds

such as diamonds

tiles were often having a red-brown ground and an overlaying design in buff with the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey having one of the most famous of medieval tiled floors

with a fitted interior

but this could be removed and the original shine brought back if so desired

Fully reversible if required

A Pair of Late 19th Century Folk Art Painted Wooden Money Boxes sub-Antiques such as diamondsOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 7 inches Diameter: 2. 25 inches Coin Slots: Grenadier: 2 inches, Guard: 1. 5 inches Two charming turned wooden figures, of cylindrical form, both naively painted in yellow, black, and red; one painted as an Irish Guard, the other a Scottish Grenadier, with rather outlandish bearskin hat. There are few light surface scratches, and some rubbing to the face of the